From the course: After Effects Compositing: 5 Rotoscoping & Edges

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Lock position only

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- So here I am, and I've got my basic roto. Now I'm ready to tweak it for the inconsistencies I might see in the edges. So for example, that one's kind of loose, so I might drag a mask around a couple points there. Move them into place. And go to the next frame and loosen those out. And then come over here and move that one in. And go down here and... Oh! I've just made a common error as I move quickly, which is to move the entire layer. There's a simple way to prevent that and I'm going to show you how in this lesson. So I'll just undo. But if I hadn't noticed myself doing that, I would have kept working away and not noticing, potentially, that things weren't getting aligned properly because I had moved the entire layer. So let's fix it. So, the problem is the position gets moved. Let's reveal Position, shift + P to show Position, and all my masks. And I'm going to fix this with an Expression. So, if I were to lock the entire layer, I wouldn't be able to move it. I can move the…

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